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Climate Denier Nigel Farage Standing in Seat at Risk of Sea Level Rises and Flooding

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The international journal Oceans and Coastal Management also produced a study in 2022 suggesting that the Tendring area, which encompasses Clacton, is at risk of sea level rises – potentially affecting hundreds of homes. We need a serious national debate about the scale of the threat.” metres) and 3.61

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Oil Drilling in the ‘Land of Water’: ExxonMobil Hunts for More Fossil Fuels in Guyana Amid Sea Level Rise Fears

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Exxon is now putting Guyana at the heart of its plans to press on hunting for new fossil fuel supplies despite the climate crisis. In April, it estimated that the region holds roughly 9 billion recoverable oil-equivalent barrels of fossil fuels. Double the Risks”. It’s not yet clear whether the Engine No.

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Study: Climate change to blame for $8 billion of Hurricane Sandy damages

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And that universe, according to scientists, is one without climate change. And, according to a new study out Tuesday in Nature Communications, 13 percent of its costs can be attributed to human-caused sea-level rise. First, they analyzed how much seas had risen in the New York area thanks to climate change.

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Fossil Fuel Companies Ask Hawaii Supreme Court to Dismiss Honolulu’s Climate Case

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As more than two dozen climate liability lawsuits by state and local governments against fossil fuel companies continue to progress, a case brought by the city and county of Honolulu could become the first to put Big Oil on trial. The oil companies in the Maui lawsuit have asked the state trial court to dismiss the case. “The

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New IPCC Report Reveals Accelerating Ice Melt and Sea Level Rise

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Climate impacts are accelerating and this is expediting the timelines for the melting of the cryosphere and sea level rise. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The climate ocean nexus is increasingly clear. This is the conclusion of the most recent report from the U.N.

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Two-Thirds of People in Climate Denier Nigel Farage’s Constituency Are Worried About Rising Temperatures

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is at odds with his own constituents over the issue of climate change, according to new polling. A majority (68 percent) of voters in Clacton, Essex, are concerned about the effects of rising temperatures, according to a poll by More in Common, and the think tank E3G.

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Big Oil Foresaw Extreme Flooding Now Predicted to Hit US Coasts Almost Daily

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From a scientist who warned executives in 1959 that New York could be submerged, to a confidential 1988 Shell report that raised the possibility of abandoning inundated low-lying areas, the industry has shown clear internal acknowledgement of the potential consequences of unabated fossil fuel burning.